Driver charged in fatal downtown hit-and-run

Charges have been filed in the deadly hit and run crash that killed an Augsburg College student early Saturday morning. According to a complaint, 27-year-old Teisha Randle of St. Paul was the driver of car traveling 90 miles an hour in downtown Minneapolis before allegedly hitting 20-year-old Austin R. Conley in a crosswalk near the corner of 3rd Street and 1st Avenue.

Charges have been filed in the deadly hit and run crash that killed an Augsburg College student early Saturday morning, the Star Tribune reports.

According to a complaint, 27-year-old Teisha Randle of St. Paul was the driver of car traveling 90 miles an hour in downtown Minneapolis before allegedly hitting 20-year-old Austin R. Conley in a crosswalk near the corner of 3rd Street and 1st Avenue.

The Star Tribune says Randle does not have a license and told police she thought someone had thrown a rock at her windshield.

Police found Randle's car in her garage with a large crease in the hood along with a shattered windshield.

Minneapolis police are asking for help in a downtown hit-and-run case that left a man dead over the weekend. The 20-year-old victim was struck on the corner of 3rd St. North and First Avenue a little after 2:30 a.m. Saturday and died later at a hospital.

The wife of former Viking Joe Senser turned herself in to authorities this morning and faces a charge for criminal vehicular operation. She says she was driving the vehicle when Anousone Phanthavong was killed.

Police say they believe they have found the driver of a vehicle that struck and killed Austin Conley, a freshman at Augsburg College, WCCO reports. Conley was hit at about 2:40 a.m. Saturday at Third Street North and First Avenue in Minneapolis. Authorities arrested the suspect in Ramsey County, and they believe they have also located the vehicle from the incident.